This contribution focusses on the role of Italy in the history of encyclopedism, taking the articles on “America”, a core entry in geographical dictionaries, as an example. Italian encyclopedism’s unique feature is its existence as a history of translated compilations. The updating of information in the Italian editions of the Encyclopédie méthodique’s geographical dictionary is worthy of attention for the changing commercial, cultural, economic, and political landscape that is reflected in them.
Clorinda Donato (Thu,) studied this question.